diff --git a/.changeset/fn-8432-planning-tablet-mobile-plan-layout.md b/.changeset/fn-8432-planning-tablet-mobile-plan-layout.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@runfusion/fusion": patch
+---
+
+summary: Planning Mode tablet tabs match mobile; mobile main shows sessions before running plan.
+category: fix
+dev: Assert compact interview tab parity and gate Running plan to intentional session detail navigation.
diff --git a/MOBILE.md b/MOBILE.md
index ffbd16f1dc..64a4daad93 100644
--- a/MOBILE.md
+++ b/MOBILE.md
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ gesture delivery enabled across `cap sync` regenerations.
 
 ### Planning Mode
 
-Planning Mode opens directly into the composer pane on mobile when no planning sessions exist, avoiding an empty-sidebar dead end. Desktop keeps its three-pane interview (answered history, current question, and running plan) when there is room. Mobile, phone-class short landscape, and tablet use a progressive interview: **Question** is the default full-width surface, while labeled **Running plan** and **Answered questions** controls switch to those surfaces without stacking three panes. **Sessions** and the mobile back control always return to the saved-session list; this is a full-pane, scrollable list with **New session** as its footer and no Running plan stacked beneath it. The same escape is available from interview, summary, breakdown, and a new-session composer when saved sessions exist; **Validate plan** remains on the Running plan surface.
+Planning Mode opens directly into the composer pane on mobile when no planning sessions exist, avoiding an empty-sidebar dead end. Desktop keeps its three-pane interview (answered history, current question, and running plan) when there is room. Mobile, phone-class short landscape, and tablet use a progressive interview: **Question** is the default full-width surface, while labeled **Running plan** and **Answered questions** controls switch to those surfaces without stacking three panes. On mobile, opening Planning with saved sessions lands on the full-pane, scrollable saved-session list with **New session** as its footer; **Running plan** appears only after you intentionally open a session and select its tab. **Sessions** and the mobile back control always return to that list. The same escape is available from interview, summary, breakdown, and a new-session composer when saved sessions exist; **Validate plan** remains on the Running plan surface.
 
 ### Chat and Quick Chat mobile scroll/readability behavior
 
diff --git a/docs/dashboard-guide.md b/docs/dashboard-guide.md
index 7e476db2e8..e63d61cec0 100644
--- a/docs/dashboard-guide.md
+++ b/docs/dashboard-guide.md
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ When an active Planning AI generation appears stuck, Planning Mode automatically
 Use **New session** to restart planning with a different idea.
 
 <!-- FNXC:PlanningMode 2026-07-18-16:00: Planning Mode is an infinite, user-controlled interview. Each answer updates the running plan and produces another context-aware high-impact question; only Validate plan finalizes it. -->
-Planning Mode keeps the running plan visible beside answered-question history and the current question on desktop; you can rename a session and keep asking high-impact, context-aware questions until you choose **Validate plan**. On tablet, mobile, and phone-class short landscape, the interview switches between labeled **Question**, **Running plan**, and **Answered questions** surfaces so the current question stays usable instead of competing with three columns. **Sessions** (and mobile Back) return to a full-pane, scrollable saved-session list with **New session** pinned as its footer; the Running plan is not stacked under that list. This escape remains available from interview, summary, breakdown, and a new-session composer whenever saved sessions exist, while **Validate plan** remains available on the Running plan surface. The running title, description, and deliverables are available throughout the interview—including while the next question is generating or a recoverable error is shown. The AI never ends an interview on its own. Selection questions provide alternatives with pros and cons plus an **Other** free-text choice, whose wording follows your input language and whose answer steers the next question. You may edit an earlier answer by question ID without losing later answers; Planning re-derives the running plan and appends a fresh next question.
+Planning Mode keeps the running plan visible beside answered-question history and the current question on desktop; you can rename a session and keep asking high-impact, context-aware questions until you choose **Validate plan**. On tablet, mobile, and phone-class short landscape, the interview switches between labeled **Question**, **Running plan**, and **Answered questions** surfaces so the current question stays usable instead of competing with three columns. On mobile, Planning opens to the full-pane, scrollable saved-session list when sessions exist; **Running plan** appears only after you intentionally open a session and choose its tab. **Sessions** (and mobile Back) return to that list with **New session** pinned as its footer. This escape remains available from interview, summary, breakdown, and a new-session composer whenever saved sessions exist, while **Validate plan** remains available on the Running plan surface. The running title, description, and deliverables are available throughout the interview—including while the next question is generating or a recoverable error is shown. The AI never ends an interview on its own. Selection questions provide alternatives with pros and cons plus an **Other** free-text choice, whose wording follows your input language and whose answer steers the next question. You may edit an earlier answer by question ID without losing later answers; Planning re-derives the running plan and appends a fresh next question.
 
 Choose **Validate plan** when the running plan is ready for task creation. Validation is durable and is required before **Create task**, **Create tasks**, or **Start breakdown**; those actions reject unvalidated sessions.
 
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.planning-flow.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.planning-flow.test.tsx
index 5ab9890a76..2f01e7f428 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.planning-flow.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.planning-flow.test.tsx
@@ -3636,18 +3636,57 @@ describe("PlanningModeModal", () => {
       expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Running plan" })).toBeDefined();
       expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Answered questions" })).toBeDefined();
       expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Next question" })).toBeDefined();
+      expect(rendered.container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-question");
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Running plan" }));
+      expect(rendered.container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-plan");
+      expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Validate plan" })).toBeVisible();
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Answered questions" }));
+      expect(rendered.container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-history");
+      expect(screen.getByRole("complementary", { name: "Answered questions" })).toBeVisible();
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Question" }));
+      expect(rendered.container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-question");
 
       fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Sessions" }));
       expect(await screen.findByRole("complementary", { name: "Planning sessions" })).toBeDefined();
       fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Sessions" }));
       expect(rendered.container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--show-detail", "planning-modal-body--compact-question");
       expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Next question" })).toBeVisible();
-      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Running plan" }));
-      expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Validate plan" })).toBeDefined();
       rendered.unmount();
     }
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    ["generating", {}],
+    ["error", { error: "Generation failed" }],
+  ])("keeps tablet progressive tabs for %s interview state", async (status, fields) => {
+    mockViewport("tablet");
+    mockFetchAiSession.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      id: `session-tablet-${status}`,
+      type: "planning",
+      status,
+      title: "Tablet planning session",
+      inputPayload: JSON.stringify({ initialPlan: "Tablet plan prompt" }),
+      conversationHistory: "[]",
+      result: JSON.stringify(mockSummary),
+      thinkingOutput: "",
+      projectId: null,
+      ...fields,
+    });
+
+    const { container } = render(<PlanningModeModal isOpen={true} onClose={mockOnClose} onTaskCreated={mockOnTaskCreated} onTasksCreated={vi.fn()} tasks={mockTasks} resumeSessionId={`session-tablet-${status}`} />);
+
+    await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "Question" });
+    expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-question");
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Running plan" }));
+    expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-plan");
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Validate plan" })).toBeVisible();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Answered questions" }));
+    expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--compact-history");
+  });
+
   describe.each(["desktop", "mobile"] as const)("single interview action on %s", (viewport) => {
     it("keeps only Next question and the localized Other input affordance", async () => {
       mockViewport(viewport);
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.ui-interactions.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.ui-interactions.test.tsx
index 3692a88112..044d35cf3d 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.ui-interactions.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/PlanningModeModal.ui-interactions.test.tsx
@@ -968,6 +968,31 @@ describe("PlanningModeModal", () => {
       });
     }
 
+    /*
+    FNXC:PlanningModeMobileTablet 2026-07-20-11:00:
+    Opening Planning on a phone with saved sessions is list-first, not an implicit resume.
+    The plan is permitted only after an intentional session selection and is unmounted again on return.
+    */
+    it("keeps mobile main list-first until an operator opens a session", async () => {
+      mockViewport("mobile");
+      mockActiveSession();
+      const { container } = render(<PlanningModeModal isOpen={true} onClose={mockOnClose} onTaskCreated={mockOnTaskCreated} onTasksCreated={vi.fn()} tasks={mockTasks} initialSessions={sessions} />);
+
+      expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--show-list");
+      expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /Active planning session/ })).toBeVisible();
+      expect(screen.queryByRole("complementary", { name: "Running plan" })).toBeNull();
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /Active planning session/ }));
+      await screen.findByText("What is the scope?");
+      expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--show-detail");
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Running plan" }));
+      expect(screen.getByRole("complementary", { name: "Running plan" })).toBeVisible();
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Sessions" }));
+      expect(container.querySelector(".planning-modal-body")).toHaveClass("planning-modal-body--show-list");
+      expect(screen.queryByRole("complementary", { name: "Running plan" })).toBeNull();
+    });
+
     it("returns an active mobile interview to usable session rows without a running plan", async () => {
       mockViewport("mobile");
       mockActiveSession();